David Michôd's The King moves like it's got the weight of the world on its shoulders, and in a way it does.
Adapted from William Shakespeare's "Henriad," which was adapted from actual history, the film chronicles the early reign of King Henry V (Timothée Chalamet), during which he faces betrayal in his court, death on the battlefield, and taunting on an international stage. His every choice reverberates around the globe and through the ages, but making the right ones is easier said than done when one has inherited an exhausted country from an irrational ruler (Ben Mendelsohn as Henry IV).
No wonder he spends so much of the movie with a silent frown fixed on his face; no wonder that even when he grins, it comes out like a grimace, as if from lack of practice. Everything must feel heavy to a man like that, and that's not even accounting for the full set of armor bearing down on his back much of the time. Read more...
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